Door-hanger



(No Model.)

A. PARKMA'N.

DOOR HANGER.

Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM PARKMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO W'ILLIAM M.GRISOOM, MAT'IHAN HARBSTER, AND WILLIAM HARBSTER, ALL OF READING,PENNSYLVANIA.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,274, dated November28, 1882.

Application filed May 1882. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern Be it known that I, ABRAHAM PARKMAN, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,haveinvented certain Improvements in Barn-Door Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of a barn-door hanger constructed in the peculiarmanner fully described hereinafter; also, of the combination of the saidhanger with acornice on the burn, for the twofold purpose of laterallyguiding the hanger and of shielding the upper portion of the same andthe rail on which its roller traverses from the weather and fromparticles of hay and straw.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved barn-door hanger; Fig. 2, avertical section of part ofthe barndoor and the permanent structure to whichitishung,showingtheimprovedhanger; and Fig. 3, a top view of the hanger.

A is the permanent wooden rail, to which the door B is suspended, and onwhich the wheel D of the hanger traverses.

The body of the hanger consists of a castiron plate, E, having lugs a,through which screws or bolts are introduced into or through the door B,forfirmly securing the hunger to the same.

0 The wheel D is hung to a pin, one end of 4.0 door laterally andshielding the said rail, the

roller, and upper portion of the hanger from exposure to the weatherandfroin particles of hay or straw, which might interfere with the railand moving parts'ot' the hanger.

A groove, 6, is formed in the cornice for receiving two rollers,ff,adapted to pins projecting upward from the top. of the hanger.

inclined in respect to the opposite sides of the groove, so that oneroller will bear against one side and the other against the oppositeside of the said groove-an arrangement which permits the rollers torotate freely. At the same time the two rollers serve to guide thehanger laterally and insure the traversing ot' the door in a straightcourse.

The cornice G may be economically made of the four strips mp, q, and t,of wood, the strip q extending downward, so as to shield the rail andupper portion of the hanger and rollers, the strips being such that theycan be put together without any expensive fitting.

I claim as my invention- 1. A barn-door hanger in which are combined ahanger-plate, E, a supportingwheel, D, and guide-rollers ff, the centersof which are in 'a line at an angle to the course of the wheel D, as setforth.

2. The combination of the rail A and a cornice comprising the widestrips 19 and q, the narrow intervening strip,n, and the coveringstript, with the hanger-plate E. having a wheel, D, adapted to the rail A,and rollers f f, adapted to the groove formed by the strips m1, and q,the centers of said rollers being in a line at an angle with the sidesof the groove, as set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name o this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM PARKMAN.

Witnesses:

A. STEINLEIN, I KRONER.

